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Valentine's Day card, depicting a woman, man, and dog on a country road, undated

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Location Note

Ephemera: Greeting Cards: Valentine's Day Cards

GUSN

GUSN-195505

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Description

This Valentine Day's card presents a central image surrounded by lace. In a country scene near a body of water with spires in the distance, a woman holds the arm of a man and looks at a small dog jumping at her feet. The inscription is arranged in the border around the central image and reads: "My love, my fate, dear one, to share has ever been my ardent prayer. And if kind heaven but grant one thing, I'll ask no greater earthlly bliss."

Details

Descriptive Terms

love
lace (needlework)
rural areas
valentines
greeting cards

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000616
AccessID 850
Other identifier HNEDID-000616

Physical Description

1 greeting card

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.05.TMP.012

Record Details

Material Type

valentines
greeting cards

Subjects

Valentine’s Day
dogs (animals)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Ephemera: Greeting Cards: Valentine's Day Cards

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